Bivalvia - Cardiida - Palaeocarditidae
Parent taxon: Palaeocarditinae according to H. E. Vokes 1980
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Ros-Franch et al. 2014 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Carditomantea, Pseudopis
Subtaxa: Palaeocardita austriaca Palaeocardita buruca Palaeocardita carinata Palaeocardita glaukos Palaeocardita iranica Palaeocardita peruviana Palaeocardita quadrata Palaeocardita silberlingi Palaeocardita singularis Palaeocardita stoecklini Palaeocardita trapezoidalis
Type: Cardium austriacum
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of China (1 collection), New Zealand (1)
• Triassic of Argentina (3), Australia (2), Austria (50), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (2), China (5), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (13), Iran (25), Italy (18), Japan (1), Laos (1), Mexico (3), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (2), Oman (1), Peru (3), Switzerland (2), Thailand (3), the United Arab Emirates (3), United States (6: Nevada, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
Total: 155 collections including 165 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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